April, 1998 vol. 2 was mailed to the NJDS Alumni. There is great
concern as to where the medical industry is going. In order to
focus on the issues more closely, we looked into the past with
a lesson in upheaval back in 1972 on the NJDS campus. We looked
into the future by introducing ATEC- soon to be on campus. We
looked at today with what fellow Alumni are doing to change the
way impoverished children receive dental care, our involvment
with Special Olympics and a forum for major issues that concern
you and will concern the dentists of tomorrow.

Table of contents:

Features:

Farewell, Friend: As UMDNJ
President Dr. Stanley S. Bergen, Jr., prepares to leave his position
in June, he shares thoughts on NJDS's future and his own.

ATEC: Almost Real, Almost
Here: This state-of-the-art, high technology learning facility,
coming to NJDS this fall, brings practitioners and students as
close to real-patient experiences as inhumanly possible.

Walking Around the Block:
Dr. Michael C. Alfano ('71), senior vice president of research
and technology at Block Drug Company, Inc., says his job is "part
law, part accounting, part clinical, and a tiny bit science."

United They Stood in '72:
They marched through downtown Newark and boycotted a microbiology
exam. Twenty-five years later, they're as close knit as ever.
With sidebar, "One Class: Three Great Teachers."

High Honor for a "Quiet
Hero": Associate dean William R. Cinotti becomes the
first dentist to win the Pew Health Professions Commission's
Primary Care Achievement Award in Patient Care.

SOM Students Get the Dental Edge:
Dentist meets physician at the UMDNJ-School of Osteopathic Medicine's
new Department of Dental Medicine. It's the first merging of
dentistry into an osteopathic medical school program in the nation;
Dr. George Mardirossian ('67) is at the helm.

Leading Ladies: Administrative
personnel are as much a part of the history of NJDS as any dean,
faculty member, or alumnus. Here, five members of the professional
team are profiled.